They may not be innovating, but advancing the state of the art is a gradual process, and can by itself eventually open up new opportunity. Google's lauded Portr

They may not be innovating, but advancing the state of the art is a gradual process, and can by itself eventually open up new opportunity. Google's lauded Portrait mode probably flat out wouldn't have worked on the phones of ten years ago due to lacking computational power, and the steady advancement of x86 has ushered in software worlds beyond an i486, including things like entirely new programming languages that would not work well on 100MHz & 4MB of memory.